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School Cars: How Trains Brought Classrooms to Children in Remote Communities
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:54:08
Publish Date: 2024-12-04 13:10:00
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They were known as school cars and schools on wheels. Trains that brought the classroom to children in the most isolated communities of Northern Ontario. It was a novel six-month experiment that lasted 40 years, from 1926 to 1967. IDEAS producer Alisa Siegel explores remote education, homeschooling and nation-building. *This episode originally aired on January 9, 2023.
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